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freshwater pearl

American  

noun

  1. any of the small pearls produced especially by freshwater mussels.


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Seller Lings Pearls Studio offers a handmade freshwater pearl hair pin for $12.28.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2022

Pay tribute to the singer with Rosantica’s Pegaso five-strand, natural-colored freshwater pearl necklace handcrafted by artisans in Italian designer Michela Panero’s Milan workshop.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2018

"This is an important project because of the threat to the freshwater pearl mussel," explained Dr John Taylor, NRW's fisheries specialist.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2018

They had planned to turn the site into an ecotourism “village” complete with artisans, a restaurant, and a creek stocked with trout and freshwater pearl mussels.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2017

A new romantic comedy involves one of Scotland's most notorious forms of wildlife crime - freshwater pearl mussel poaching.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2015

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